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Helping Teams Move from Resistance to Readiness – Five Human Factors that Shape How People Respond True readiness doesn’t happen through pressure—it happens through connection. This article highlights how listening, transparency, and collaborative wins transform team resistance into momentum, cr…

Even when we want the change, our brains still tense up.
Teams do it too.

Clarity, encouragement, and transparency help people shift from resistance → readiness.
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#PeopleFirst #ChangeLeadership #PeopleFirst #HumanCenteredChange #LeadershipDevelopment #ChangeManagement

Detours and New Views How Flipping the Frame Can Change Perspective Sometimes clarity shows up in the most unexpected places — even in an upside-down photo. A staircase inside the historic Grain Exchange taught me something about perspective, control, and the quiet…

This week reminded me that the path doesn’t have to go the way you expected for it to lead somewhere meaningful.
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#Mindfulness #Perspective #Photography #Change #PhotographyIsArt #Creativity

Beauty in Transitions: Lessons from the Season’s First Frost The first frost always arrives quietly — a shimmer that changes everything it touches. In leadership, change often happens the same way: subtle, beautiful, and full of possibility. This piece explo…

The first frost whispers, not shouts — quietly transforming everything it touches. Leadership often does the same. Change begins softly, at the edges, before it reshapes the whole.

✨ New: Beauty in Transitions
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Judge orders Department of Defense to restore books removed from schools over 'wokeness'
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Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

The Secret to Change That Actually Sticks: It’s Not the Tech, It’s the Talk Most workplace changes don’t feel exciting—they feel like ambushes. One day everything’s familiar, the next it’s flipped upside down. Real resistance isn’t stubbornness—it’s human. This post explor…

Ever had your favorite app update overnight and suddenly you can’t find anything?

That’s what change at work often feels like. The problem isn’t the system—it’s the experience.

📝 Secret to Change That Sticks
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#ChangeManagement #HumanCentered #FutureOfWork #Leadership #Trust

The Trust Imperative: Why Responsible AI Is Everyone’s Business Artificial intelligence is moving fast, but speed alone won’t build trust. Responsible AI depends on ethics, governance, and accountability to serve people fairly and safely. This article explores …

AI is moving fast, but speed isn’t the real differentiator—trust is.
Ethics, governance & accountability are the guardrails that keep innovation on course. tinyurl.com/2eswkrkx
#ResponsibleAI #EthicalAI #AITrust #AIGovernance #AIForGood

Change “At You” vs. Change “With You”: Why the Difference Matters Too often, change feels like it’s coming at you—sudden, overwhelming, and out of your control. But when leaders create change with you, it becomes collaborative, purposeful, and sustainable. This p…

Change can hit like an avalanche — fast, overwhelming, and out of your control.
Or it can feel like building a trail — a shared journey shaped step by step.

True leadership is choosing with you over at you.

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How to Turn Uncertainty into Your Biggest Advantage Uncertainty doesn’t have to be a setback — it can be your biggest advantage. When leaders lean into curiosity instead of rushing to answers, they unlock creativity, build agility, and foster strong…

Uncertainty doesn’t have to be a setback.
It can be your biggest advantage.

When leaders lean into curiosity, they spark creativity, fuel agility, and help teams thrive through change.

Are you the leader who patches—or the one who pivots?
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the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

What if a browser could save the planet? We've offered to take stewardship of Google Chrome — a proposal that could change the rules of the internet and the fate of our planet.

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Bowed But Not Broken: What Nature Teaches Us About Resilience After a heavy snowfall, I found myself staring out the window at a tree bent under the weight of winter. It wasn’t broken—it was adjusting. That quiet moment became a mirror, reminding me that stre…

🌨️ The snow came heavy, but the tree didn’t break—it bent.
Resilience isn’t always about standing tall. Sometimes it’s about resting under the weight, adjusting, and still being here. kakiewrites.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/b... #Resilience #Mindfulness #BendDontBreak #QuietStrength #ChangeManagement

Making Sense of AI: New Questions for a New Reality Is AI replacing creativity—or enhancing it? This post challenges the idea that using tools like ChatGPT is “cheating,” and reframes AI as a skillful collaborator in writing, design, project managem…

What if we’re asking the wrong questions about AI?

What if it’s more than just a tool?

Old measuring sticks won’t work. Maybe it’s time to shift the lens.

New questions for a new reality.
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Why Influence, Not Authority, Drives Real Change (and How to Build it) True leadership isn’t about titles — it’s about influence. In this post, I share a real experience from my career as a project manager where I uncovered the power of leading through curiosity and c…

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Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

10 Minutes of Mindfulness Changes Your Reactions It’s a one-second lead over your mind, your emotions, your world.

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If these 8 words are part of your daily vocabulary, psychology says you're more socially intelligent than most […]

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Why You Need Systems Thinking Now Traditional innovation approaches—breakthrough and design thinking—often ignore the complex ripple effects they produce in interconnected systems. In a world facing multifaceted challenges like climat...

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Why Zero-Sum Thinking Sabotages Transformation Zero-sum thinking assumes that for the business to win, employees must lose. The result? Burnout, resistance, and distrust that sabotage transformation. This post explores how zero-sum bias shows u…

Why does change sometimes feel like winners vs. losers?
That’s zero-sum thinking, and it sabotages transformation by draining trust, energy, and cooperation. Here’s how leaders can shift to shared wins instead.
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Beyond the Process: The Human Side of Change Is Your Advantage Change doesn’t thrive on checklists; it grows in prepared soil. This piece shows how to “garden” your rollout—test the soil by listening, build a trellis for scope, plant the right seeds, prune for…

Tools are seeds. People are the gardeners. 🌿
Latest post shares 5 garden-simple moves to turn rollout into ownership. Plus a printable guide
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#ChangeManagement #HumanCenteredChange #DigitalTransformation #ChangeLeadership

Ruby’s Gift: A Norman Rockwell Moment at Crane Lake At Crane Lake, in Bob’s chair, I watched Ruby — his daughter’s black lab — edge closer to the fire while her puppy Jasper looked on. In Ruby’s regal presence, I saw echoes of Coot, of Bob—my second…

Crane Lake, Bob’s chair, Ruby by the fire, Jasper watching. A small lesson in wisdom and presence—like a Norman Rockwell scene. 📷 Read: kakiewrites.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/r... #Photography #CraneLake #Storytelling #Presence #Wisdom #QuietMoments

Will AI Help Or Hurt Your Job Search? AI is everywhere these days, from the way we binge-watch shows to how we shop online. Now, it’s popping up in job hunting, too.

Will AI help? Or hurt your job search? www.forbes.com/councils/for... #TipsForUsingAI #FutureofWork #AI

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will."
- Frederick Douglas
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7 Reasons Why Change Management Strategies Fail and How to Avoid Them - Professional & Executive Development | Harvard DCE How are you influencing change in your organization? Improve your chances of success by avoiding these common missteps.

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What If the AI Revolution Starts With You? When the National Science Foundation invested $100M in AI research centers, most eyes turned to academia. But the real opportunity may belong to mid-sized companies—those willing to get curious, ta…

The NSF just invested $100M in AI research.
Not just for labs or universities.

What if the real revolution starts with curious leaders, and a willingness to ask:
“What could AI help us do better?”

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#AI #NSF #Leadership #FutureOfWork #ChangeManagement

NSF announces $100 million investment in National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes awards to secure American leadership in AI The investment will accelerate open innovation, empower an AI-ready workforce and strengthen U.S. global competitiveness...

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The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic. – Peter Drucker
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AI is rewiring how we learn, and it’s a game-changer for L&D

"As AI becomes central to learner engagement, L&D leaders are being urged to fundamentally rethink corporate training" chieflearningofficer.com/2025/07/14/a... #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEd